Postdoctoral Researcher in History of International Law and Colonial Legal History at Tilburg University Tilburg University in Netherlands

This postdoc is based at Utrecht University and focuses on an exploratory historical investigation into the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD) in the decades after the Second World War. The project asks how the BVD and related intelligence services gathered information about former resistance members, victims of persecution, and victims of political violence in Indonesia. The appointed researcher will use literature review and exploratory archival/source research to map the current state of kn...

This postdoc sits within the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and focuses on executive lawmaking in EU migration law . The project examines how legislative power is delegated to the European Commission in the field of migration and asylum, especially in light of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum adopted in 2024. The successful candidate will contribute to a VIDI project titled “Executive supremacy? Executive lawmaking in migration law” , whic...

The PhD researcher will join the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden University as part of the Minaret Project , an interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the links between law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. The project brings together multiple universities and PhD researchers and is organized around comparative work packages and subprojects. This position is attached to the subproject “Neo-Imperialism and...

This postdoctoral project is part of COLFIN: Colonial Financial Infrastructures , a research project led by Marieke de Goede at the University of Amsterdam . The postdoc will join a team examining how colonial histories shaped modern financial infrastructures, with a specific focus on the development of credit and securitization . The successful candidate will develop an independent line of research on an aspect of early modern colonial finance and relate it to postcolonial political economies. ...

The University of Amsterdam is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the KNOWSEC-NL project, Fostering the Resilience of the Dutch Knowledge Sector: Knowledge Security and Research in a Geopolitical Context . The project examines how science and research systems can remain open to international collaboration while responding to growing geopolitical rivalry. The postdoctoral researcher will investigate urgent governance questions surrounding knowledge security, with particular attention to the...